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hermenoodle) wrote2024-11-23 11:55 am
hermenoodle) wrote2024-11-23 11:55 am
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Pantsing vs. Planning
Sometimes I find it difficult to admit that I have been more of a pantser when it comes to some of my creative projects. I suppose it's because I've always been taught to plan important things from life-related responsibilities to treat them in the same way.
Perhaps, creativity doesn't really do that.
Even though I'm a slightly left brained person, I see why my right brain wants to not conform to the demands of logic all of the time. I tend to feel the urge to create something immediately, though logic and sometimes fear tend to stop me from following through. However, I shouldn't let perfectionism try to stop me just because I don't do something right the first time. I should try again until I get it right because I know I can be persistent to get it right. Still sounds perfectionist of me, but it can be the good kind that leads to the result I really want. I suppose that's why it's good for a creative person to create a lot, even if everything is not good quality. It's just progress made to get to what's better in the long run.
It's something I'm just really admitting to myself that makes me most comfortable in my element as a creative person, and I'm glad that it doesn't make me feel any less than an artist that I am. There's a place for planning for people to take me seriously, and there's a place for pantsing for my creative side to not punish itself but liberate it to do as it will. After all, these sides are reflective of God, too. Even he can do a new thing out of what's already in order.
Perhaps, creativity doesn't really do that.
Even though I'm a slightly left brained person, I see why my right brain wants to not conform to the demands of logic all of the time. I tend to feel the urge to create something immediately, though logic and sometimes fear tend to stop me from following through. However, I shouldn't let perfectionism try to stop me just because I don't do something right the first time. I should try again until I get it right because I know I can be persistent to get it right. Still sounds perfectionist of me, but it can be the good kind that leads to the result I really want. I suppose that's why it's good for a creative person to create a lot, even if everything is not good quality. It's just progress made to get to what's better in the long run.
It's something I'm just really admitting to myself that makes me most comfortable in my element as a creative person, and I'm glad that it doesn't make me feel any less than an artist that I am. There's a place for planning for people to take me seriously, and there's a place for pantsing for my creative side to not punish itself but liberate it to do as it will. After all, these sides are reflective of God, too. Even he can do a new thing out of what's already in order.